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by weeksie 8y ago
I can assure you that the majority of SAG actors are working service jobs, living hand to mouth. This isn't an example of the rich lording over the plebs, this is an example of a union doing right by its members.
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by weeksie 8y ago
This idiot decries the building boom in Seattle while blaming high rents for the problems in New York. Get on one side of the "build more housing" argument or the other.
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by weeksie 8y ago
Totally agree. As an aside, I too have noticed our coffee improve over the last ten years. I'd bet money that has to do with the Aussie work visa program that went into effect sometime around 2009. Quid pro quo for Howard supporting th
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by weeksie 8y ago
I've flown in and out of Mataveri and I know it sounds superstitious or whatever, but I felt that isolation. It's amazing to me that the Polynesians were able to colonize so widely. Also, I love Voronoi diagrams. I ran across them
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by weeksie 8y ago
As a guy who had a bit of a delinquent streak and was sleeved with homemade tattoos by my late teens (in the mid 90s) I am SO happy that tattoos have become socially acceptable. Through an accident of fashion all of those warnings about nev
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by weeksie 8y ago
If any entertainment company is known for taking old myths and putting a new family-friendly shine on 'em it's Disney!
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Funny. I grew up in Cordova and though I'm not Native, my step brother and my half sister are. I wonder how different things are up there these days because I never got the impression that Natives were protective of their stories and
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by weeksie 8y ago
Your parents were fishermen? Mine too. I grew up in Cordova, AK and fished until I was 20 and realized that I was not tough enough to do it year round. Winter fishing fucking broke me. Anyway, I feel ya. I lucked out on my teeth but I didn&
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by weeksie 8y ago
The fact that we have any activity at all shows the indomitable spirit of American entrepreneurialism. Further, the fact that so many Americans ever start businesses without the safety net of healthcare goes to show that we are a nation o
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by weeksie 8y ago
My bad. I usually try not to do _exactly the thing I did_, rage-pasting a link without reading it fully. I'm not going to get into a deep back and forth over this, but nothing I am aware of shows spanking of any sort has good long term
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by weeksie 8y ago
Ditched Facebook on the phone ages ago and I had exactly the same experience. I now check FB from time to time on my desktop. Twitter might be up next but for some reason I don't find it nearly as addicting as I found Facebook. The oth
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by weeksie 8y ago
I promise there not only has been research on small children and corporal punishment and that it's not at all effective and that it is damaging. Above I linked to an article on the subject by the APA. Here's a link to the meta-ana
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by weeksie 8y ago
I know that spanking is intuitive. It sure feels like it does something. The research, however, is unambiguous about this: spanking causes more misbehavior. > In a meta-analysis of 26 studies, Larzelere and a colleague found that an ap
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by weeksie 8y ago
Bingo! This is hocus pocus lifestyle bullshit. I live with a psychologist and child behavior is something that has been studied extensively. There are well researched techniques to help a child behave and nothing in that article made me bel
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by weeksie 8y ago
Maybe. Agreeableness is often very high among the coddled set and that is a trait associated with doing well in the business world, especially for women (sometimes negatively associated when the subject is a man). However, it's also po
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by weeksie 8y ago
Okay, I understand your argument but that's not at all how that works. Framing poverty in absolute numbers creates an impossible slope to climb. Sure, it would be fantastic if we could reliably shoot for reducing the amount of poverty
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by weeksie 8y ago
Ah I did misread your comment. That said, I have no idea why that would be inappropriate. Can you go into more detail because I must have missed your point. For instance, how are you judging the situation on the ground? From any objective m
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by weeksie 8y ago
No. The poverty _rate_ declined since 1960 and has held steady since. That is a per capita measure and scales with population growth.
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by weeksie 8y ago
While this is a bit breathless, I think it does call out the fact that American poor are much worse off than those in a typical rich country. Since the 80s the upper middle class has grown quite a bit while the working class and poor have l
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by weeksie 8y ago
I'll pop in since kettlebells usually don't get a lot of play when talking about strength training on here, at least as far as I've seen. I'm an old school gym guy—squats, deadlifts, bench, pullups. I got curious about k
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by weeksie 8y ago
It's understandable to frame it in this way, and there are legitimate predators who take advantage of people in those environments. The common case is more prosaic: addicts are often codependent and will seek romantic companionship amo
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by weeksie 8y ago
You know, when I'm interviewing someone my VASTLY preferred approach is to have them walk me through something they've coded that they're proud of. That's not aways possible, but often it is. Give me a good slow walk thr
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by weeksie 8y ago
One of the ironies being that footballers can hit each other so hard _because_ of the padding and helmets. The better they make 'em the harder they'll hit and I suspect this is an arms race that will continue.
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by weeksie 8y ago
I remember when I first moved to Sydney those treads totally bowled me over. I haven't been back in years. Sad that they're no longer in service but glad something was done with them.
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I would have thought she'd mention Introduction to Algorithms (Rivest et al). The Pierce book is great but hardly something that I'd include in an every-programmer-must-learn-this list. Code Complete is fantastic. I haven't r
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by weeksie 8y ago
1. This is not the issue. If it were, suburban low density Palo Alto would be absorbing new people at a fine clip. The problem is the lack of building. 2. This is much closer to the heart of it. Local politics allows homeowners to veto good
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Depends! Increased density should drive up the price of land. However, if you are in a neighborhood of single family homes and a huge multi family building is constructed on your block, your home price will go down because there will be eno
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by weeksie 8y ago
They can vote. However, any system that allows people to rent seek by creating building restrictions that protect their property values is not an optimal solution. So sure, they can vote but they should not be able to vote on zoning. What a
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by weeksie 8y ago
Just a reminder that the growth rates for SF, SV, Seattle, Portland are all pretty puny compared to the growth rates of, e.g. Detroit at its peak. Hell they're not even that crazy compared to growth rates those cities have handled befo
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by weeksie 8y ago
I'm over that hill and I also got on the consulting train a few years back. It's funny because I sometimes get recruiters calling me with good jobs (high salary, unlimited vacation, interesting projects) and I respond with, "

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